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We don't need to lose another star, and his song "Power" goes from bravado to cranked-up obsession - "the clock's tickin', I just count the hours" - and finally to self-destruction: "It'll be a beautiful death, jumping out the window, letting everything go ..."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Money Is a Concept: Pain, Hip-Hop, And Economic Soul-Sickness RJ 2011
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But the cranked-up crowd's outward outpouring of emotion during sing-alongs and other random acts of fan worship made it seem like the Avetts have captured lightning in a bottle.
Michael Bialas: Grace Potter/Nocturnals, the Avett Brothers Find Love on the Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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But the cranked-up crowd's outward outpouring of emotion during sing-alongs and other random acts of fan worship made it seem like the Avetts have captured lightning in a bottle.
Michael Bialas: Grace Potter/Nocturnals, the Avett Brothers Find Love on the Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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We don't need to lose another star, and his song "Power" goes from bravado to cranked-up obsession - "the clock's tickin', I just count the hours" - and finally to self-destruction: "It'll be a beautiful death, jumping out the window, letting everything go ..."
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Money Is a Concept: Pain, Hip-Hop, And Economic Soul-Sickness RJ 2011
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But the cranked-up crowd's outward outpouring of emotion during sing-alongs and other random acts of fan worship made it seem like the Avetts have captured lightning in a bottle.
Michael Bialas: Grace Potter/Nocturnals, the Avett Brothers Find Love on the Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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But the cranked-up crowd's outward outpouring of emotion during sing-alongs and other random acts of fan worship made it seem like the Avetts have captured lightning in a bottle.
Michael Bialas: Grace Potter/Nocturnals, the Avett Brothers Find Love on the Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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But the cranked-up crowd's outward outpouring of emotion during sing-alongs and other random acts of fan worship made it seem like the Avetts have captured lightning in a bottle.
Michael Bialas: Grace Potter/Nocturnals, the Avett Brothers Find Love on the Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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But the cranked-up crowd's outward outpouring of emotion during sing-alongs and other random acts of fan worship made it seem like the Avetts have captured lightning in a bottle.
Michael Bialas: Grace Potter/Nocturnals, the Avett Brothers Find Love on the Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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But the cranked-up crowd's outward outpouring of emotion during sing-alongs and other random acts of fan worship made it seem like the Avetts have captured lightning in a bottle.
Michael Bialas: Grace Potter/Nocturnals, the Avett Brothers Find Love on the Rocks Michael Bialas 2011
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Living in the Corners, you learn to read the tired, cranked-up anger of truck drivers running behind schedule; the agitation of tourist Daddies driving their families around to visit Indian pueblos and to hike on the mesas.
The Corners Jane Hammons 2010
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